Am I correct in my understanding that the following two are effectively the same? the property is outjected into event scope so it's called several times during the JSF request processing lifecyle, and so is the the actionBean.getProperty() method - and both have the same lifetimes? ActionBean.java: | | @Stateful | @Name("actionBean") | public class ActionBean implements ActionBeanLocal ( | .... | public getProperty() | return property(); | } | | ... | | example.xhtml: | | <h:outputText value="#{actionBean.getProperty}"/> and ActionBean.java: | | @Stateful | @Name("actionBean") | public class ActionBean implements ActionBeanLocal ( | .... | @Out(scope=ScopeType.EVENT) | public getProperty() | return property(); | } | | ... | | example.xhtml: | | <h:outputText value="#{property}"/> When is one pattern preferable to the other? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3990201#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...